Reading TolkienSince1990 (Marvin in Scotland)

@EuropeanSuper17 @CelticFC @csasocialclub @PaulJohnDykes There is no plan to get out of SPL. There is never any noise or attention given to that. They didn’t even speak up for the Super League.

The minutes of @CelticFC meeting with the @csasocialclub on Friday 🤦👇@PaulJohnDykes

@MelGibsonQ__ Lovely post Mel. Here’s to the TLM. ✝️

@g_dogg67 @PaulJohnDykes @chrismac1888 No, just step out.

@PaulJohnDykes @chrismac1888 PJ you mentioned something at the start of Fridays ACSOM…. ‘Step up or step out’. You should get that trending 💪🍀

@jk_rowling Condescending men? Surely women are more likely than anyone to have supported gender woo and more likely to comment as you have described on Gladwell? When will women take accountability for their quarter century promotion of gender ideology? Men were told to STFU.

Gladwell’s career wouldn’t have been destroyed if he’d spoken out against the glaring unfairness, not to mention dangers, of allowing men to compete in women’s sport. He’d have faced loss of approval from the cultural elite and received activist blowback, and even that wouldn’t have come with the tsunami of death and rape threats women face when they speak. Non-famous people, mostly women, girls and gay people, have genuinely had their careers and indeed lives destroyed for saying what Gladwell was too pusillanimous to say, and Gladwell didn’t lift a finger in their defence. Like many well-known liberals, he was happy to watch members of the great unwashed bullied, traduced and defamed, fine with the erosion of freedom of speech, comfortable with young women being robbed of sporting honours and facing serious injury, because he valued his own standing and security more highly than acting on the feeble promptings of his conscience. A rash of condescending men will swarm my mentions when I post this to tell me I should be pleased about Gladwell’s cautious backtracking. No. He hasn’t changed. He’s merely sensed a shift in what it’s acceptable to say and feels safe to align himself with the new consensus, excuses for his previous behaviour to the fore. He isn’t an ally, he’s a weathervane. Changing sides years late, and only after you’ve realised the non-elite opposition is winning, isn’t a mark of integrity but of arse-covering. Those whose overriding focus is remaining in good odour with the in crowd can never be trusted. Gender identity ideology has been the modern arts world’s McCarthyism, and all Gladwell’s done is reveal himself as a man who’d have named names, but felt a bit uncomfortable about it afterwards.

@dalgibbard @OctopusEnergy My inverter is set to charge the battery overnight at 7p. I would probably have had to go on and set it to charge individually for this 2 hour session. Too much hassle. Will just skip the next one. Car being plugged in though shouldn’t have been charging. There was no need.

@Tolkien_32Years @OctopusEnergy That sounds more like a system configuration issue... I set our hybrid inverter to charge via home assistant based off the Octopus integration Free Electricity status.

2-hour Free Electricity Session is no match for Monica 🐙💪

@The3rdFrame @MattMcGlone9 The remuneration these people have received for a PLC of our size and turnover is highly irregular, verging on fraud. Meanwhile the stadium is dilapidated and we have regressed as club compared to 20 years ago. As for domestic success, honestly, who gives a fuck at this point?

@Tolkien_32Years @MattMcGlone9 So you'd rather have a board that never made us money, never gave the manager 10s of millions of pounds and never had unprecedent success domestically? Ok then...all about opinions eh?

I’m not sure what I quite read there or are we meant to take that statement seriously. At least I know I’ll never run out of fairy stories to tell my grandkids #couldntmakeitupbuttheydid 🤷🏼‍♂️

@The3rdFrame @MattMcGlone9 You are wrong. This board has been mismanaging the club and creaming off of it for 2 decades. For most of that time our support has been bought off by meaningless titles and beating “Rangers”. The stadium is a fucking state and the new CL format was an opportunity for growth.

@Tolkien_32Years @MattMcGlone9 No it's not. It's not good enough, they should be doing more for the fans...but it's not completely bad. We are not being run into the ground nor are we abject on the park despite some recent results. Have a bit of balance.

@OctopusEnergy Do we need to sign up for it?

One hour to go til your DOUBLE FREE SESSION - TIME TO LIVE LA VIDA LOCA!!!! What’s the weirdest thing you’ll be powering up today?

@Kitson67 The inside of the stadium is absolutely squalid.

“The cash reserves reflected in our accounts exist for the continuous improvement of Celtic Football Club” Aye but not the fucking stadium eh?

@The3rdFrame @MattMcGlone9 The board is all bad.

@MattMcGlone9 It's typical corporate comms, similar to politician speak - highlighting any positives, excusing the negatives. The problem is, this board isn't all bad. They're happy to stay, top in Scotland and "compete" in Europe ...but clearly aren't prepared to do much to compete in Europe.

@MattMcGlone9 It was hard to read because I was insulted and bored in equal measure so I honestly do t know if there were any excuses in there for the squalid state of the stadium.

@Strangeland_Elf 🥱

This is why men dress so boringly. Guys make fun of other guys for dressing in anything even remotely interesting.

@disparutoo Talentless?

Talentless hack can't work out how to make himself a victim again. More news at 11.

@sean_mcgarvey11 @CelticFC These will never ever try to take the club forward or seek to improve our position in the game. The way things are suits them juuuuust fine. They need to be run out. Stadium is currently a disgrace also. Absolute squalor.

A terrible statement full of excuses and blaming everyone but themselves. Not one ounce of reflection, which means things will never improve under this regime. They genuinely think their strategy is right. We could have reinvented the club under new champions league format which is designed for clubs like ours, yet we have regressed ..

Celtic Football Club Statement.

@CelticFC Ehhhhh, no.

@RetroMoviesDB All Christopher Nolan films.

What movie opinion gets you like this?

@TheHiddenValar 😞

Now I've read The Silmarillion 3x. I own 4 copies. I've read The Fall of Númenor 7x and own 2 copies. I own 2 copies of Children of Húrin, 2 copies of The Fall of Gondolin, 2 copies of Beren & Lúthien, 2 copies of Unfinished Tales. Rings of Power is amazing. #LOTR #Tolkien

@EMon970 @JRRTLore It was

@JRRTLore Was it Elfhelm

#Tolkien trivia: who leads the eored of which Dernhelm is a member?

@bnapole @HollyBeauties Grow up

@HollyBeauties The one who's not a redneck nazi